MY FIRST EXPERIENCE ABOUT WEB BASED LECTURE

our infancy time we went school our chooty teacher used the black board and loudly speak and thought us. but nowadays it's changed,then i came university using white board and pen but now changed using web based lecture in digital era wow... thanks all people given this opportunity

I have seen this type of lecture on the Internet but I never participated this kind of lecture. This is my first experience. I think it is great opportunity to student who likes us. As i think it represent tradition of modern technology for education. I warmly thanks to people who gave this chance for me. I think this type of modern things will help to enhance our knowledge about web based learning. 

First of all I would like to thank Mr. Amitha Amarasinghe who was organized this lecture. Technology that they use here is webinars. Simply Webinar is a way of conducting lecture and workshop through the Internet. My first webinar experience was on Search Engine Optimization which was conducted by Mr. Suranga Priyashantha who is a senior marketing consultant at Australia. He conducted the lecture from Australia and we participated from the university premises.
This is very effective method and this generates lot of advantages. Mr. Suranga who is our resource person is from Australia. So even physically we can't contact with him because of the distance. This technology made a remarkable opportunity for us to get the knowledge from that kind of resource person. Mr. Suranga did this lecture very well by using some slides. After the lecture traditionally we fear to ask question form lecturer. But that time we asked some question from lecturer through the Facebook.
Here I explain my personal experience about web based lecture. So some time I felt this method is uncomfortable. Why I said like that. Because students couldn't joined with lecture interactively and we couldn't asked question when lecture is going on.
I think this is not a big issue. This is the first step. So we have to develop lot of areas. In near future we can do this in a better way by minimizing issues with modern technology.

thank you!!!!

       

Website usability checklist for Ikman.lk

Web usability – ikman.lk

 If we go through the internet we can meet lot of web sites which are different with options and preferences. I think you might have visited thousands of web sites and would have ambiguous thoughts and evaluations of them. This is my second blog post I would be significantly considering about web development through the web usability. Among the leading website ikman.lk keeps a greater position and I hope to evaluate that through ikman.lk based on the checklist given.

We can consider about on that web site following criteria

·         Accessibility

·         Identity

·         Navigation

·         content

Accessibility

1.       Site loading time

Site loading time of ikman.lk site is not too long as it takes about 5,6 seconds.

2.       Adequate test to background contrast

The color changes in to different positions of background. So there can see a normal contrast between background and text.

3.       Font size, spacing is easy to read

Fonts are big and highlighted as can see in some necessary places of vital information. it’s sometimes make small and difficult to read.

4.       Flash /add- ones are used sparingly

It’s available with flash and add-ons and continues normally with no restriction to the users and no disturbance for any surfing.

5.       Images have appropriate ATL tags

It’s difficult to find ATL tags in the web site.

6.       Site has a  not found / 404 page

It’s available with a customized page.

Identity

1.       Company logo is prominently placed

Ikman.lk have some identification logo it’s there seen for us.

2.       Tag line

              Tag line is free classified in Sri Lanka

3.     Home page is digestible in 5 seconds

It is very clear to extract information from the home page. Quickly and easily information  can be accessed.

4.     Clear path to company information

With the links available you can obtain many information and by clicking more           possible to find many.

5.     Clear path to contact information

We can easily access contact details of the company also from the menus.

Navigation

      1.     Main navigation is easily identifiable

Through the different parts and links available and as you can see in the images not difficult to identify the main navigations.

     2.     Navigation labels are clear and concise

Navigation labels such as offers, lower rates, IDD low charges are very clear to see very consistently

3.     Number of buttons and links are reasonable

It’s fit to the line expecting the user and even with the fonts. So they are really reasonable.

4.     Company logo is linked to the home page

When we click on the logo it makes the path to home page.

5.     Links are consistent and easy to identify

As they appear in a manner which is with clear links it makes an easy form to identify.

6.     Site search is easy to access

It’s easy to access as the search button is available at the side.

Content

1.    Major headings are clear and descriptive

You can see major headings as the links and when you need to enter  them you need to go through links.

2.    Critical content is above the “fold”

Main areas are covered with the logo and vital details about the rates and offers are under the logo.

3.    Styles and colors are consistent

The logo is colored with white background and mix of colors in dialog. If you go through links it also contains some color differences.

4.    Emphasis is used sparingly

Some parts are with bold and some emphasizes are there to see.

5.    adds and pop ups are unobtrusive

Pop ups are not seen much. But some ads are available.

     6.  Emphasis is used sparingly:

                Topics are in red color as it is the theme color and also highlighting areas are bolded

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         7.  Ads and popups are unobtrusive:

                Ads are visible in a side of the page. But popups are hardly found.

 

         8.  Main copy is concise and explanatory:

At once someone can understand this site is about a financial company by viewing the homepage.

 

         9.  URLs are meaningful and user friendly:

                Here URL is user friendly and meaningful. Anyone can easily note. (www.eseylan.com)

 

          10.  HTML page titles are explanatory:

                                 HTML titles are basically giving and idea about particular page contents.

This is simply about my evaluation about usability of the website of  ikman.lk according to above mentioned 25 criteria.

Thank you!!!!